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Tuesday 31st August to Saturday 4th September 2021 @ 8pm

Waiting for Wifi
Written and performed by Jessica Courtney Leen

Maggie is the girl whose life you love to hate, as she sifts effortlessly through South America on the back of her successful travel blog. Except for the fact that it’s 2023 and Maggie is actually still in her bedroom since 2020 when she developed agoraphobia during lockdown.

Surviving on Tesco home delivery and working as an online GAA content curator, she has her family and friends fooled into believing she is living her best global life, while she runs a fake blog from the green screen in her bedroom. But tonight, when the power goes and the only world she exists in disappears, an interrupted Maggie must weather her own existential storm.

A comedic, all-baring glance into the mind of an extroverted introvert desperate for a connection.

Waiting for Wifi is a one woman, empty space piece of physical theatre that breaks the mould of conventional theatre and opens audiences up to an everyday life story in an abstract way. It touches on the themes of mental health and social media in a darkly comedic way, showing the existential crisis of Cork girl, Maggie. In a non-sensical sense-making stream of consciousness that comes to life on stage, this is a bold, fast paced, unusually scripted and physically daring piece of modern theatre that is, in a way, Beckettian in intent and a modern hat tip to Beckett’s Godot.

Waiting For Wifi uses both voiceover and a live variety multi-character performance to bring this one woman show to full fruition. As a musician, the writer and performer – Jessica Leen – enjoys using sound in creative ways but also enjoys the simplicity of one actor on an empty stage performing everything themselves with finely tuned mime, vocal impressions and strong performance physicality.

Duration: 50 minutes

Tickets: €12, €10 concessions.

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GUIDELINES FOR ATTENDING SHOWS

We would like to bring your attention to the following measures that we have put in place to ensure a safe and comfortable experience for all our patrons.

1. Temperature will be taken of staff, actors and audience members as they enter the venue.
2. Masks must be worn. You may bring your own mask or purchase one if necessary when you arrive.
3. In accordance with current social distancing, there will be seating for a maximum of 28 persons (or less) with 2 meters distancing. Seats are sold in pairs to ensure that only close contacts sit next to each other.
4. The theatre will be deep cleaned after each performance.
5. Seating will be allocated so please check your ticket carefully.
6. The bar will remain closed for now as per government guidelines.
7. Door handles will be wiped down every 15 minutes by our staff.
8. Audience members will be shown to their seats by staff to ensure social distancing.
9. Weather permitting, audience members are advised to leave the building during the interval.
10. Our staff have been updated on all the necessary procedures and policies so do please co-operate with their requests to ensure a pleasant experience for everyone.

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